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In Vietnam for a few days at the World Economic Forum’s East Asia Summit and picked up a few statistics from a Yahoo/TNS study of the Internet usage in Vietnam. In sum, Vietnam’s Internet is increasingly a social (access to Social Networks is skyrocketing), mobile (More people are getting online via mobile, especially in HoCONTINUE READING

Wanted: Country Editor (Vietnam), Yahoo! Southeast Asia Yahoo! Southeast Asia is looking for a driven and passionate leader for the role of Country Editor for Vietnam. This role requires strong leadership and editorial skills to help build Yahoo’s presence in Vietnam. The successful candidate will report to the Managing Editor for Southeast Asia. Responsibilities –CONTINUE READING

Ivy Wong joined Yahoo in 1999 as Hong Kong employee number one. (The office was so small when she came to interview that at first she did not believe it was the famed Yahoo of San Francisco.) From that 800-foot office in Sheung Wan, Yahoo Hong Kong has grown to more than 180 employees andCONTINUE READING

Spoke with Paul Ginocchio of Deutsche Bank, one of the few remaining newspaper stock analysts in the United States, about newspapers and dotcoms on the sidelines of IFRA’s Publish Asia 2008 conference in Macau.Newspapers have traditional strengths– Content: Highest quality and most robust local news and information (by far)- Brand: Almost always the strongest localCONTINUE READING

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